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Nov 08, 2009
Ans-Typhoid.The picture depicts Mary Mallon, also known as "Typhoid Mary", was the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Over the course of her career as a cook, she is known to have infected 53 people, three of whom died from the disease. Her notoriety is in part due... to her vehement denial of her own role in spreading the disease, together with her refusal to cease working as a cook. She was forcibly quarantined twice by public health authorities and died in quarantine. Dr.Pavan Joshi and Apoorva Chandar got this right...

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